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Definition of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1. Noun. French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850).
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Literary usage of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"... directly upon the subject of the atomic weights were furnished by Joseph Louis
Gay-Lussac. This brilliant scientist was born at St. Leonard in 1778. ..."
2. Famous Chemists: The Men and Their Work by William Augustus Tilden (1921)
"Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born on September 6, 1778, at St. Leonard, a small
town in the department of Vienne near the borders of Auvergne, ..."
3. The Journal of Geologyby University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"Foundations of the Molecular Theory: Comprising Papers and Extracts by JOHN
DALTON, JOSEPH Louis GAY-LUSSAC, and AMEDEO AVOGADRO, 1808-11. ..."
4. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year by Edwin Emerson, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Maurice Magnus (1901)
"Born at Saint Le"onard, Haut-"Vienne, in 1788, Joseph Louis Gay- Lussac distinguished
himself early in his career as a scientist by his aerial voyages in ..."
5. A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of by Florian Cajori (1899)
"Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) was educated at the Polytechnic School, became
assistant to the chemist Berthollet, and later professor of chemistry at ..."
6. An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1917)
"Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) A distinguished French chemist who contributed
much to our knowledge of gases and their combining ratios If V and Fj are ..."
7. From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition by Robert Siegfried (2002)
"3» Avogadro's principle derived directly from die law of umes first stated in 1808.
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac having /C,.. others had before him, ..."